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Review of Under the Shade of Violets

Under the Shade of Violets

Orange Blossom

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

The French electronica-meet-world-music outfit known as Orange Blossom had been off the radar for a whole ten years until they...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean

The Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network (2 CDs)

Rating: ★★★

Though quite pleasant listening, this CD isn’t a comprehensive cross-section of Mediterranean music, but rather a disparate collection of genres...

Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: October/2013

Review of Live at the Old Fruitmarket

Live at the Old Fruitmarket

RURA

Rura Music

Rating: ★★★★★

Live at the Old Fruitmarket marks an incredible ten years for the band, a decade that has seen many changes...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020

Review of Not Leaving Quietly

Not Leaving Quietly

Joe Broughton’s Conservatoire Folk Ensemble

Birmingham City University

Rating: ★★

A track on a folk album led by a bassoon! That’s a rare pleasure. In ‘Hole in the Wall/Nabo’, the...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: October/2021

Review of A Mis Hermanos

A Mis Hermanos

Diego Clavel

Nuba Records

Rating: ★★★★

Since winning his first singing prize back in 1970, Diego Clavel has steadily gained an admiring audience both inside Spain's...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2015

Review of Vaiteani

Vaiteani

Vaiteani

Sony France

Rating: ★★★★

With far too little South Pacific Polynesian music making its way across the big waters these days, this is a...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2018

Review of Laysongs

Laysongs

Chris Thile

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

Nowhere has master mandolinist Thile’s formidable artistry been more fully realized than on Laysongs. Urged on by Nonesuch Records honcho...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2021

Review of Chants

Chants

Al-jiçç

Al-jiçç

Rating: ★★★★

A Portuguese band playing Middle Eastern music while paying homage to American jazz: with a premise like this, it’s either...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: January/February/2022

Review of Mi Alegria

Mi Alegria

Itamar Erez

Itamar Erez

Rating: ★★★★

Eclectic composer and musician Itamar Erez's new album Mi Alegria (My Happiness) weaves a scintillating journey incorporating a vast array...

Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: November/2019

Review of Day by Day

Day by Day

Norman Blake

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★★

At 83 years old, Blake is poised to take his place in the Americana pantheon. In the 1960s he made...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2022

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